Introducción

Title: Spider Tong
Author: Perley Poore Sheehan
I
IT WAS while he was still far back in the Gorge of the Grasping Fist
passes leading from China into Tibet--that Captain Trouble first heard
of the Spider Tong. The man who told him about it was a Chinese
gentleman named Mr. Wang. An elderly gentleman dressed in a long coat
of gray silk, with purple-black silk trousers neatly tied at the
ankles over spotless white socks. Then the long hair, one of the old queue,
and a mandarin cap. -A tsung-ping,- the captain remarked to himself-meaning a -red button.- It took nerve on the part of a Chinaman
nowadays to wear the regalia of the old empire, no matter where he
was.
And Mr. Wang not only wore the mandarin cap with the red button on it;
there was a ceremonial fan sticking from the back of his neck.
He himself, Captain Trouble, in such ...